Antigua and Barbuda has been ranked 154th out of 195 countries in the 2025 Government AI Readiness Index, according to Antigua News Room, placing the country among the lower tier of CARICOM member states in terms of preparedness to deploy artificial intelligence for public benefit.
The index, published annually by Oxford Insights, assesses governments across a revised six-pillar framework encompassing Policy Capacity, AI Infrastructure, Governance, Public Sector Adoption, Development and Diffusion, and Resilience. Each country receives a score between 0 and 100 on each pillar.
Across CARICOM, national rankings range from 93rd to 189th globally. Jamaica stands as the region's strongest performer, placing inside the global top 100 — a position Oxford Insights attributes to the country's newly published national AI strategy. Trinidad and Tobago (122nd) and The Bahamas (126th) occupy a second tier, while the remaining 11 member states, including Antigua and Barbuda, fall between 144th and 189th place.
Region-wide scores point to a notable imbalance between infrastructure and strategy. Averaged across CARICOM, AI Infrastructure is the strongest pillar at 33 out of 100, followed by Governance and Resilience at 29 each. Policy Capacity and Development and Diffusion both score just 13, suggesting that while Caribbean nations have laid some digital foundations, the development of coherent national AI strategies and applied AI initiatives remains significantly underdeveloped.
The data, as reported by Antigua News Room, collectively indicate that CARICOM governments possess stronger digital infrastructure than they do the policy frameworks or implementation capacity needed to translate that infrastructure into meaningful AI-driven public services.
